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  • New League! New League!

    Let’s forget about the film. One of the most genuinely enjoyable and rewarding comic books in years, the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is also one of the most frustratingly irregular. Both the first and second volumes took an eternity to come out from DC/Wildstorm, and the latest volume- the thoroughly intriguing ‘Black Dossier’- has been delayed more times than I can count. It might be coming out in February/March- but I’m not holding my breath.

    Now, however- thanks to comic god Alan Moore finally cutting ties with DC, and the fact that the League is completely creator-owned, there’s a third volume of the series coming out from Top Shelf/Knockabout, the people who handled From Hell and Lost Girls. It’s not due out until 2008 (and anyone want to bet that date’ll change?) but it sounds utterly fantastic. Story details below, from the relevant page on Top Shelf’s website…

    They’re extraordinary. And they’re gentlemen…

  • Day 5: Early Start

    Okay. That wasn’t as hard as I was expecting. It’ll get harder, but for the moment, I think I’m doing okay with this…

    Words: 1,024

    Progress on FLIPSIDE

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    4,789 / 67,500
    (6.0%)

    I’m over 5% in. I’ve almost cracked 5000 words. Gosh…

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  • Day 4: Dazed and Confused

    Okay, the subbing is over. I’ve got seven days booked for the beginning of April, which helps massively. I’m doing well with the manuscript reading work I’ve got at the moment. Plus… (drum roll….)

    909 new words. All in longhand, on a notebook, while I was on my way to and from London.

    Progress on FLIPSIDE:

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    3,765 / 67,500
    (5.0%)

    I have no idea what I’ll have when I’ve finished this. I might have to go through this just to look at what I’ve written and go- “No, I really can’t write like this, can I?” At least this way, it only takes 90 days, and I can see what writing every single day turns out like. And while I have a plan for the first half of the book, I’ve no idea exactly where it’s going to end up, so I think that when things start going crazy, they’re going to go REALLY crazy…

    Hopefully tomorrow will be a little calmer.

    (Sleep soon…)

  • Day Three

    Tired. Long day. Not up to writing much. But, despite a train journey and a day’s work subbing…

    Progress on FLIPSIDE:

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    2,856 / 67,500
    (4.0%)

    Question is- can I manage this tomorrow, as well?

  • Day Two (aka: The Honeymoon Is Over)

    Why am I trying to write a novel that starts off in a normal Secondary School? I really didn’t like school that much. I’m not even sure I remember what it’s like to be a teenager. I’ve already started getting weird and trippy in order to make up for the fact that I can’t cope with writing about normal school life. I’m going to keep up the wordcount, but I have the horrible feeling this might turn into a nightmarish slog. (Ah, optimism.)

    Anyhow:

    Progress on FLIPSIDE:

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    2,078 / 67,500
    (2.0%)
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  • Attack of the Disco Indians

    Just found this on Making Light – a quite terrifying cover version of 50’s surfer anthem ‘Apache’ apparently from Danish pop king Tommy Seebach. It starts wrong, and then proceeds into a whole new universe of wrongness.

    My eyes! It burnssss!!!!!

    And I leave you with a Making Light quote:

    If the War on Drugs people had a lick of sense, they’d buy up the rights and reissue it with THIS IS WHAT A PERMISSIVE DRUG CULTURE WILL DO TO YOU neatly lettered at the top of the screen.

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  • Morning Glory

    The First Day.

    Progress on FLIPSIDE:

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    1,134 / 67,500
    (1.7%)

    I may not have an idea where it’s going, but I’m happy to have at least gotten this far.

    (Now, I must go and do a victory roll…)

  • No Sleep Till Brooklyn

    Eeek.

    I just commited myself to the novel_in_90 community. I’m going to be writing a novel over the next three months- I start tomorrow, and I end on April 29th. It’ll be a subversive teen spy adventure called Flipside, and whatever happens, it’s going to be interesting trying to keep up the challenge. I will maintain a wordcount update, and maybe this might just keep me sane over the next few weeks…

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  • Torching the Wood V: Another One Bites The Torch…

    It may be late, the debate may be over, nobody may care anymore- but I’ve finally watched the entirety of Torchwood, meaning that- for the final part of this unexpected series- I’ve got six episodes to get through. Time to torch some wood. Beware the spoilers…

    Vote Saxon! You know it makes sense- and so does Russell T. Davies…

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  • Meme Attack

    Memes for today- because 50,000,000 Elvis fans can’t be wrong…